Definitions for leeches

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leeches leech

Spelling: [leech]

IPA: /litʃ/

Leeches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in leeches (ceeehls).

Definitions for leeches

noun

1. any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
2. a person who clings to another for personal gain, especially without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite.
3. Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood.
4. a physician.
5. either of the lateral edges of a square sail.
6. the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
7. Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.

verb (used with object)

1. to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.
2. to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech:
3. Archaic. to cure; heal.

verb (used without object)

1. to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech:

Origin of leeches

before 900; Middle English leche, Old English lǣce; replacing (by confusion with leech²) Middle English liche, Old English lȳce; cognate with Middle Dutc

Examples for leeches

The leech looked like a field of lava now, a blasted spot on the green Earth.

But the leech was not human, not even of this planet, perhaps.

He clung like a leech, dragging her closer in spite of all she 224 could do.

To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.

She knew both from Stephen and from the leech that this was far from being his condition.

"I've been put in charge of getting rid of this leech," he said to Micheals.

"We gotta get it out of the road," Flynn said, walking truculently up to the leech.

It was anthropomorphic of O'Donnell to see the leech as an enemy.

If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech.

Perhaps he knows better how deep his hurts are than does this leech.